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The paper is concerned with the empirical modelling of domestic demand for energy in the United Kingdom at the level of …-stage budgeting model of the household's demand for energy conditional on its ownership of durables. Preferences at both stages of the …, electricity and a composite good, "other fuels". This composite good is subject to such large measurement errors in the data set …
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will allocate cash flows into cash holdings if their hedging needs are high (i.e., if the correlation between operating … if their hedging needs are low. The empirical examination of debt and cash policies of a large sample of firms reveals … hedging needs have a strong propensity to save cash out of cash flows while leaving their debt positions unchanged. In …
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Despite much work on hedging in incomplete markets, the literature still lacks tractable dynamic hedges in plausible … deviate unless she can pre-commit to follow them. We apply our results to the discrete hedging problem of derivatives when … specialized to the Black-Scholes setting. We also generalize our results to richer settings to study dynamic hedging with Poisson …
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We examine whether and how the allocation of financial transmission rights affects the behavior of electricity … generators and electricity consumers with market power in the electricity market. The analysis recognizes that the ultimate … node and of electricity buyers at the cheap node. Financial rights can also mitigate market power of buyers at the …
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behavior of electricity generators and electricity consumers with market power in the electricity market. The paper extends the …
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The British electricity supply industry has, with the exception of Nuclear Electric, now been privatized. Bulk supplies … of electricity are traded between two dominant generators and many suppliers in an unregulated `pool'. The generators …
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This paper examines future energy and emissions scenarios in China generated by the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH …
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Motivated by the regulatory debate in electricity markets, we seek to understand how market design affects market …
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The EU faces challenges in reforming the Gas and Electricity Directives to implement the single market in electricity …
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This paper contrasts direct election with political appointment of regulators. When regulators are appointed, regulatory policy becomes bundled with other policy issues for which the appointing politicians are responsible. Since regulatory issues are not salient for most voters, regulatory...
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